She/her. Transwoman. Rad centaur princess. Persona 1's strongest soldier. I only follow back people I have a reason to, I am too old and tired for otherwise. Still here after at least 3 decades.
PFP by @harleequeen.bsky.social
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I've been seeing some interior samples from artists looking for comic work. A few reminders of things to include:
-clear shots of characters' faces at various distances
-interior and exterior backgrounds
-loose and tight clothing
-fast and slow action
-vehicles
Optional: animals, kids, a kiss
learning that the legendary "creator's wife with mobility loss" who everyone says ~inspired~ Dressmaker is in fact a co creator and developer for the game and also they are not even married
I always ask myself why are we fighting for a better world if we can't actually stop to enjoy things or share in the joy of others? I know it can be a trauma response, but we need to unlearn it. There's no virtue in being miserable or expecting the worst. At very least stop bringing down strangers.
man all isekai anime feel the same, they all go to fantasy europe with overpowered abilities with no downsides whatsoever. why dont they try something more original like, i dunno go to the moon reborn as like a gorilla, with like a tesla cannon and maybe a bubble shield to protect from aoe spam
Excitement for the upcoming Bloodborne film has tanked following the announcement that the movie’s frame rate will be locked to 24 FPS.
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Why I hate "comfort" language is best described by this woman hearing a story about a child being disciplined for drawing a zombie scene at Halloween and bringing up worries of school shootings. People can be wrong and also act like you're stupid for it. You shouldn't be nice to them.
So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.
In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.
Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).
Desert Bus for Hope is still hurtling through a digital desert, but the Star Trek MTG hype train also has no brakes and we're revealing the Federation Fleet commander precon deck in a little under two hours! 😃
I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive
Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy
Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr
I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!
NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher.
The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.
"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs
Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers
why the fuck is discord like a first-party sony game now why is it constantly popping up tutorials to for shit i dont need when i open a chat window man
i need all discourses about whether ai is actually useful for certain tasks or if not using it is a privilege (???) to cease immediately until they stop selling compute at a multi-billion dollar loss
Floating this out there (gingerly phrased in a way to avoid bot spammers): I would like to work with someone who specializes in graphic design on creating some new, easily editable social templates i can use to promo Party Of One episodes and announcements.
If thats you, reach out.
What’s this? Oh nothing just OLD SKIES ON THE FRONT PAGE OF WIKIPEDIA.
Totally chill about this. Anyway, if Wikipedia like my game maybe you will too? store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/...
Sonic and the Lost World has officially broken me. I have lost my shit and uninstalled it. Whoever designed the 3rd lava world stage can go and die in a fire.
It’s funny how Elon Musk can just turn off a country’s internet and has more power than most nations and that news just kinda fluttered past us. Like I’m sorry I think that goes against the rules of humanity, I don’t think that should exist, I think Elon Musk ought to be extremely and graphically mu
Hey look, that’s me! We can’t get everything we want done until 2029, but we can drag them into impeachment & oversight hearings, oust most unpopular admin officials, and force Republicans into impossible choices (both to help the American people & because GOP congressmen deserve to suffer)
Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...
This is why I hate the “it has to be subtle!!!” Critique of queer media. The fact that we can’t just say what we are or what the character is is so reductive and constraining to so many queer writers. Don’t let cis people dictate how you show you identity. They don’t know what they’re saying.
When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.”
When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.”
They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.
it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over
maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
Mark Zuckerberg is straight up way more evil than Elizabeth Holmes but because he’s got a lot of money the tech press has to go to his little events and pretend his ideas are valid instead of being like “what’s up with that dumbass shirt?” and “don’t you regularly influence elections/genocides?”
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem
correct
states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently
we can do it here too
The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways.
It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."
The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.